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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2014-12-07 07:23 pm

[EVENT] A NEW WORLD ORDER

Characters: ALL!
Date: December 8, 2015 (with some starters for the following weeks)
Location: Keeliai, the Midnight Hotel, others
Situation: The Foreigners have awakened.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings as needed.

They've been in the Dreaming for so long that when they wake up their bodies feel more like automatons, alien and ill-fitting. They haven’t atrophied, thanks to Milyn, but they’re stiff and a little bedsore, and the solidity of the Life Plane is jarring. Here, the surroundings don’t move on a whim. Here the world is more stable, almost harsh and unyielding in spite of the homey surrounds.

It’s been a year, says the clock on the mantle and on the second floor. Says Milyn, too, when she’s able to stop hugging them long enough to speak.

Nothing much has changed in the Midnight Hotel. There are dishes out of place, objects belonging to either Milyn or Eva in evidence, the diorama exactly where it had been but now brightly-painted thanks to Milyn's boredom. Milyn and Eva took a room each, in the time the Foreigners were sleeping, though neither used them much.

Eva’s upstairs, Milyn will tell anyone who asks. In her room.

Eva hasn't left that room in three days. She hasn't spoken in three days, either, or walked, or moved, or breathed. Her effects are neatly arranged around her bed, and the sheet has been pulled up. There is heavy incense in the room and Milyn has managed to preserve the body enough to remove the risk of too much mess (and other things). In a way, that makes it worse: as though Eva is sleeping. It’s difficult to tell whether Milyn is in denial or whether spending three days with no one to talk to other than sleeping Foreigners and a corpse has had its influence.



LINKS
Dreaming log | Foreigner's Awakening (Hotel) | Milyn’s Relief | Exploring Keeliai | Old & New Faces (Canon Updates/New Arrivals) | OOC: State of the Shell
onethirdthesoul: (eeyyaaahh)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-14 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yin--" Ryou's eyes widened, and any grogginess left seemed to clear as he took hold of that thin psychic connection to Yin. It was nothing like it should have been, and he can't believe he didn't realize sooner.

"O-oh no...," they were gone an entire year. His voice cracked at the realization as he went on, "she...she must think we abandoned her!"

[personal profile] royalguard_style 2014-12-14 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Considering we were comatose heaps on the ground? I doubt she thinks that badly of us." Dante felt just about as guilty and distraught, but he didn't show it. Devils never cry, after all. "More likely? The locals ran them out of town while they were still rooting for team Malicant. The bastards."
onethirdthesoul: (I won't listen to you anymore!)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-16 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"H-how could she be sure?" He brought his hands up, pressing his palms to his cheeks and running his hands up into his hair.

"We weren't there for her when she needed us most! I-I knew I shouldn't have come... I should have stayed behind to protect her...," and now Yin was too far away for him to even try and call her back.
Edited 2014-12-16 15:39 (UTC)

[personal profile] royalguard_style 2014-12-16 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"You were there for her, kid. Right up until all hell broke loose. And that's the best you could have done." He assured.

"Besides, right now, I'd be worried about if she's actually okay. Why the hell does it feel like she's on the other end of the earth?" He was considering something drastic. Maybe he should beg the kedan for a boat. Maybe he should scream telepathically until something gets through. Anything.
onethirdthesoul: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-17 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ryou didn't feel like it was the best he could have done. A million more things he could have and should have done run through his head, but it's all far too late now. Tears rolled down his cheeks even in his attempts to stop them, sniffling and wiping them away.

He just had to keep reminding himself that Yin was alive. At least she was alive.

"She must be really far away now... If the locals really did run her out, then... There's only one place she could have gone." He didn't want to say it, because doing so would certainly mean it was impossible to get her back.

[personal profile] royalguard_style 2014-12-19 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Had it been someone other then a kid who never should have been wrapped up in this mess, Dante would have tried to stop him from crying. But considering what he'd been thrown into? It's a miracle he doesn't cry more often. Sure, it's annoying, but right now, he could care less.

"You have an idea of where she might have run off to?" Dante was curious. The fact that she swam away was a given, but did Ryou think of a destination? He shouldn't get his hopes up, but knowing where to start going if he ever gets his hands on a boat.
onethirdthesoul: (frightened look)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-19 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"She must have swam out to sea!" Ryou whined as he stated the obvious. Likely to Dante's disappointment.

[personal profile] royalguard_style 2014-12-20 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Well... Yeah." Ryou, Dante is disappointed in you. "I thought that was pretty much a given."
onethirdthesoul: (gasp!)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-22 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Oh," Ryou fell into silence for a time, only breaking it with the occasional sniffle. "Well, um...sea turtles usually live in the water, but there's a chance she might have headed to one of the nearby continents, I think."

[personal profile] royalguard_style 2014-12-24 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
"So then, all we need is a map of this place, an idea of where we are now, and a boat large enough to carry a turtle that's however big she must be." What was this? A plan? Maybe. But where the hell was he going to get a boat?
onethirdthesoul: (solemn)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-26 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ryou worriedly knitted his brow, apparently being the realist in this scenario. "I don't know if that's a good idea, Dante... I want to get Yin-chan back as much as you do, but neither of us know how to captain a boat, let alone navigate the open sea."

[personal profile] royalguard_style 2014-12-28 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, and I was pretty sure Yin didn't know how to navigate before she up and left." Damn you Ryou, damn you and your logic.

Oh, but he was supposed to be working. Damn this whole "responsibility" thing. Damn it to hell. He picks up the bucket and turns back around. "So maybe that's a bad idea. But I'll figure something out."
onethirdthesoul: (serious talk)

[personal profile] onethirdthesoul 2014-12-28 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ryou wanted to say that, being a turtle, Yin probably had some natural compass, but it really didn't feel like the time to be technical.

"I'll try to think of something too, and we can share ideas later... Whatever it takes, I want to find Yin-chan again."